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Old 06-08-2007, 10:01 PM  
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Michael Moore donates $12,000 to save critics site

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113385/site/newsweek/

By Tony Dokoupil
Newsweek
Updated: 11:53 a.m. MT June 8, 2007

June 8, 2007 - Jim Kenefick, 36, is the founder of Moorewatch.com, one of the Web's most visited anti-Michael Moore sites. So imagine Kenefick's surprise when he received a friendly voice mail last month?from Moore himself, calling from the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his agitprop documentary ?Sicko.? The lefty filmmaker had two things to tell his cybercritic. First, he wanted Kenefick to know that he and his Web site appear prominently (albeit anonymously) in ?Sicko,? his soon-to-be-released attack on the American health-care industry. In the film, Moore shows several of Kenefick?s blog posts where he pleads for money to keep MooreWatch.com alive because his wife's medical bills (Kenefick says she has a neurological disorder) have almost bankrupted him. He is saved at the last minute when a mysterious donor sends a $12,000 check, enough to keep the site going and pay insurance premiums for a year?which brought Moore to his second point. Before the world found out from his film, the filmmaker wanted his nemesis to know: he was Kenefick?s guardian angel. Kenefick spoke to NEWSWEEK?s Tony Dokoupil about his unwitting stardom and new opinion of Michael Moore.
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